Hi,<br><br>Herewith the log, winnowed down to the relevant bits.<br>----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- <br><br>**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Mar 30 18:47:11 2010<br><br>18:47:11 * Now talking on #linux-aus-lugs<br>
18:47:12 * Topic for #linux-aus-lugs is: Meet Last Tuesday of the month - WA 18:00 - SA 19:30 - East Coast 20:00 (GMT 10:00am) Next meet Mar 30<br>18:47:12 * Topic for #linux-aus-lugs set by cafuego at Tue Mar 9 15:56:03 2010<br>
18:47:41 <donak> g'day all<br>19:03:25 * PaulWay has joined #linux-aus-lugs<br><snip><br>19:07:01 * appletea has joined #linux-aus-lugs<br>19:08:52 <PaulWay> Hi appletea!<br>19:10:05 * andyg has joined #linux-aus-lugs<br>
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20:00:11 <PaulWay> greetings, pleatings and cleatings.<br>20:00:24 <donak> shall we start with introductions?<br>20:00:35 <PaulWay> Good idea. From the top?<br>20:00:46 <donak> < Don Knowles, Central Queensland Linux User Group<br>
20:01:25 * swathe_ is Dylan from the Central Queensland LUG<br>20:01:40 <PaulWay> Paul Wayper, Canberra LUG<br>20:01:42 <noorbeast_> Gary McMurtrie CQLUG<br>20:01:43 <appletea> Alice Boxhall, Linux Aus OCM :)<br>
20:01:51 <jhesketh_> Joshua Hesketh, TasLUG<br>20:02:29 <donak> welcome Alice :-)<br>20:02:34 <appletea> donak: thank you!<br>20:02:43 <donak> for those who don't know, Alice is the one bearing goodies!<br>
<snip><br>20:03:37 <appletea> Yes -- Web team are happy to set up a Drupal instance on www.[X].<a href="http://linux.org.au">linux.org.au</a> for anyone who wants one<br>20:03:54 <appletea> thank cafuego for that one!<br>
20:04:13 <donak> we had a vote, and I emailed cafuego ... we'd like <a href="http://www.cqlug.linux.org.au">www.cqlug.linux.org.au</a><br><snip><br>20:06:13 <appletea> Other than that, though, I'm just here to lurk and pass on any grievances, comments etc you have to the rest of council<br>
20:06:31 * appletea lurks<br>20:07:59 <donak> was there a decision about a wiki attached to each webpage?<br>20:08:23 <appletea> donak: You get a drupal instance... I don't know whether that includes a wiki?<br>
20:09:00 <donak> I don't know what drupal is, sorry :-/<br>20:09:07 <jhesketh_> drupal can do wiki-like features that I'm sure we're happy to help you set up (I'm also part of said webteam)<br>
20:09:16 <jhesketh_> donak: <a href="http://www.drupal.org">http://www.drupal.org</a><br>20:09:22 <appletea> jhesketh_: Wohoo, thanks for taking that :)<br>20:09:44 <jhesketh_> it's a content management system that allows you to make websites.. it's very powerful and has a lot of modules (including wiki ones)<br>
20:09:55 <jhesketh_> appletea: Here to help :)<br>20:10:04 <PaulWay> Having news items like a blog, and a wiki for general pages, is useful.<br>20:10:08 * appletea continues lurking<br>20:10:22 <donak> cool: I'll leave that stuff to the experts (crosses fingers)<br>
20:14:00 <PaulWay> Move on?<br>20:15:31 <donak> 2nd topic: what we're doing for Software Freedom Day<br>20:16:20 <PaulWay> It'll probably be same-old-same-old here.<br>20:16:24 <PaulWay> It's a good formula that works.<br>
20:16:33 <swathe_> what do you do?<br>20:16:44 <PaulWay> We'll have a stall at the computer market, and then an installfest a week later.<br>20:17:06 <PaulWay> We give out CDs and flyers to the installfest.<br>
20:18:01 <PaulWay> We find that the computer market (like the swap meet sort of thing) is the best place to get people who are already interested in technology.<br>20:18:21 <swathe_> nothing like that here sadly<br>
20:19:00 <donak> our last "Software Freedom Day" was at the University Open Day<br>20:19:16 <donak> seemed like our best chance to attract some possible fans<br>20:19:34 <donak> we were about a week early<br>
20:19:42 <swathe_> yeah, was a little hard due to lack of foot traffic<br>20:19:53 <PaulWay> Ouch.<br>20:19:57 * jhesketh_ is now known as jhesketh<br>20:20:03 * talonz (~<a href="mailto:talonz@ppp118-208-174-139.lns20.bne4.internode.on.net">talonz@ppp118-208-174-139.lns20.bne4.internode.on.net</a>) has joined #linux-aus-lugs<br>
20:20:11 <swathe_> but the people that did come in were reasonably impressed i think<br>20:20:12 <donak> we will try some "leading signs" to get them up the road and in the building<br>20:20:24 <PaulWay> Cool.<br>
20:20:34 <donak> hi talonz <br>20:20:39 <swathe_> still looking for a sucker for the tux suit<br>20:20:53 <PaulWay> One thing that would be really good would be to pool our resources making cool flyers.<br>
20:21:00 <donak> introduce yourself talonz :-) ... he's another one of ours<br>20:21:03 <PaulWay> Maybe needs some LA web space?<br>20:21:30 <PaulWay> Come on, donak, we know that everyone is a CQLUG member.<br>
20:21:37 <talonz> ;p<br>20:21:43 <talonz> hi yas<br>20:22:02 <noorbeast_> We adopted another from the gold coast lug ;-)<br>20:22:48 <noorbeast_> Donak, we will need to confirm participation in the cqu open day<br>
20:23:14 <PaulWay> Which reminds me, we have a bunch of LA blank CDs here - time to start burning.<br>20:24:25 <donak> that reminds me ... evil_steve are you there?<br>20:25:09 <jhesketh> As an alternative to burning CD's you could advertise for patrons to bring in their own thumb drives that you'll install a bootable copy of Linux onto (faster than burning CD's on the day)<br>
20:25:17 <donak> appletea, do you know anything about blank LA DVDs?<br>20:25:22 <PaulWay> jhesketh: we do that too.<br>20:25:49 <PaulWay> jhesketh: try to cut down on coasters.<br>20:25:52 <appletea> donak: I don't, sorry. I will ask if anyone's around...<br>
20:26:04 <PaulWay> I can probably send you some.<br>20:26:13 <donak> I think evil_steve had them, which is why I asked after him first<br>20:26:17 <PaulWay> Kate'd be happy to reduce the number of boxes of them in the garage.<br>
20:26:26 <swathe_> lol<br>20:27:55 <donak> we received CDs last year, but one of our number doesn't have a lot of faith in CDs ... he's waiting for DVDs to arrive :-)<br>20:28:32 <evil_steve> donak: yes. I received your request, I'm hopeing to get onto it next week<br>
20:29:22 <donak> thx evil_steve :-)<br>20:29:42 <donak> I wasn't sure if my "notice" in IRC worked last meeting<br>20:30:02 <appletea> donak: No response from lactte channel, email me <snip> if you want me to chase them up -- sounds like PaulWay has it sorted though<br>
20:30:20 <donak> evil_steve does, thx appletea <br>20:30:29 <appletea> oh right :)<br>20:30:59 <appletea> anyway, that email address is good for anything else you want me to bring to the council's attention, too<br>
20:31:30 <donak> noted, thx :-)<br>20:36:12 <donak> well, who should we "talk" to about setting up our "webpage" appletea ?<br>20:36:44 * evil_steve points at jhesketh <br>20:37:28 <appletea> donak: Yeah, jhesketh would seem to be a good place to start :)<br>
20:37:33 <appletea> Or I can ask cafuego<br>20:37:35 <swathe_> i imagine one of our own would be responsible for it's administration and content?<br>20:38:01 <donak> I figured the first thing would be "here's your login"<br>
20:38:12 <swathe_> lol<br>20:38:30 <appletea> swathe_: AIUI, once the drupal instance is set up, the content is your responsibility<br><snip><br>20:42:27 <donak> well, I can't think of anything else ... does anyone else have any topics?<br>
<snip><br>20:46:34 <noorbeast_> One other possible topic, could a humbug member be invited on a regular basis to let us know how linux.conf is progressing and perhaps how we could help/promote?<br>20:46:56 <noorbeast_> perhaps every 3 months or so?<br>
<snip><br>20:51:13 <jhesketh> woops, was away (perhaps I shouldn't leave meetings before they are done)<br>20:51:35 <jhesketh> donak: Send an email to Web Team <snip> and we'll set you up<br>
20:52:04 <donak> np josh<br>20:52:47 <jhesketh> Most of the content should probably be handled by the LUG.. I haven't talked to cafuego about the exact plans though (although I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case)<br>
20:53:02 <jhesketh> We'll just give you a password and you can go nuts<br>20:54:25 * noisymime has joined #linux-aus-lugs<br><snip><br>20:56:46 <donak> well, I think that's all for tonight ... appletea can you make enquiries about linux.conf people, see if one wants to come along next month?<br>
<snip><br>20:57:44 <donak> it's always possible, they would be too busy doing it ... but the invitation is there, since we have a number of interested people in CQLUG, and we've been discussing attending as a group<br>
20:57:46 <appletea> donak: Sure, will follow up with ctte.<br><snip><br>20:57:56 <noorbeast_> and thanks to appletea for coming along tonight<br>20:58:18 <appletea> noorbeast_: My pleasure :)<br>
20:58:36 <donak> wonderful to meet you all here, come again next month :-)<br>20:59:24 <donak> Meeting Closed!<br><snip><br>Mar 31 00:26:13 * Disconnected ().<br>**** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Mar 31 00:26:13 2010<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Don Knowles<br>Central Queensland Linux User Group<br>Rockhampton, Australia<br>